#i think its mainly bc this was a new sketch(only a day or two old) so i didnt have to change too much in terms of how i do their pee-paws

[tribbles-the-lesbian]

‼️🎉HAPPY [late] BIRTHDAY TIBBERS🎉‼️

~he’s so silly~

[jadetheblueartist]

Top 5 songs, top 5 fruits, top 5 art pieces you’ve made

Feel free to ignore any/all of these :)

For the songs and fruit, I answered it here (I’d just paste it here, but I can’t copy more than one line for some reason :()

As for the art pieces, you sent me scouring every sketchbook to make sure I answered this right and I’m still not even sure but here you go, in no particular order:

“Kuroo and Tsukkishima from Haikyuu attempt to make you a birthday cake :)” I mainly like this bc compared to the other ones of its time it was stellar, I was proud of past me hahaha

“Percy Jackson OC Ship” I’m generally not one to ship but I guess that doesn’t apply to these babies. The girl is Jade, a daughter of Thanatos and the boy is Ezekiel, son of Dionysus (if you ever wanna know more about them, I would happily give you stuff bc boy do I have stuff) also yes, the girl is absolutely a self-insert. I have no shame. Also ignore this is two pictures bc I justified squishing them both together as one art piece and I’m not going back :)

“Tegan City AU” this is the me-insert (Megan) of the story my friend wrote that I discussed here and the imaginary boyfriend (Talon) that that insert had. Don’t judge me. Talon became my comfort character and to this day, I love him sm. The above is an idea I had where I yoinked them from their story and put them in New York. The same events would happen more or less but Talon would be trying to start a business. I have an insane amount of art and thoughts on them so, again, if you’re curious, I can talk.

“Frida Ninpo” Then there’s this which was part of a sketch dump but I just love it. Especially bc I know what it means but since I can’t disclose that I just simmer here with happiness. Also I just like the ninpo and it surprised me bc I just started doodling and kabam.

“Frida” and this one I also already posted (here I think) but I just think the colors and pose were nice. It was a victory for me, who only ever likes the pencil sketches I make.

Sorry this was long hahaha but I’m considering just making a really long post about Tegan bc bro that was my passion project for years and I wanna see it all in one place without flipping through all my sketchbooks.

Thank you @banana-pancake5

[ankhisms]

the always wonderful shelley @shanheling tagged me to do this thank u so much!! i think that everyone i wanted to tag has already been tagged to do this but if you feel like doing this feel free to consider urself tagged by me!! im putting this under a readmore bc its long and i ramble a lot

the piece i was tagged to explain my process on is this oc piece! unfortunately i have a habit of deleting my original clip studio file once ive finished my art and saved it as a new png file, so i dont have the file to show the sketch and different stages of this piece. but I still can go through my general process and talk about how i did that piece!

1. planning

honestly i think about the art that i want to do a lot, and in this last year or so ive thought about the art i want to do more than ive been able to actually create and finish that art that i want to do. for my planning i tend to do a lot of different thumbnail sketches for the art im thinking of

these are some examples of thumbnails, a lot of times ill do thumbnails just on pencil and paper and with some of these theyre done quickly with my fingers on my phone note function on a day where i was feeling too bad to get up and draw on paper but still wanted to get the thumbnail ideas down. two of these are for the same songxiao piece that i still havent finished and i have more thumbnails digitally on clip studio for the same piece, i do a lot more thumbnails when a piece isnt working the way i want it to and theres times where ill completely scratch a thumbnail or a sketch and start over in order to do more thumbnails because i dont feel happy with some aspect of it.

two of these are small gouche painting thumbnails for two pieces i did maybe a month or so ago, i did the thumbnails and then tried to expand on them digitally and im wanting to do more thumbnail paintings like this in the future because it was fun

for the piece of my oc trio it was based off a series of ask prompts i got for a few different outfit prompt memes i had reblogged, so i based their outfits on the ones in the meme. when im drawing figures i tend to try and get the movement down in the poses when im sketching, i do several rough sketches of the pose before beginning to start setting down lines (if im doing lineart at all because sometimes i dont like doing lineart and do a more lineless painting kind of style). i really try to get my art to convey some kind of emotion, in the oc piece i wanted it to feel fun and like youre seeing three best friends while theyre out on the town having a fun night

2. creating

this is the only real example i have of a piece in the middle of being filled in and created, this piece is one that im really not very happy with & have had lying around for a while and ill probably scrap it and try to come at it from a different perspective at some point. but anyway it still shows what i do, i lay down a kind of neutral gray color underneath my final sketch/lineart if im doing lineart in that piece and then i start picking out the colors that i want for the piece and kind of setting out a pallette for myself. i dont do this color pallette thing 100% of the time but i do it really often, especially if im working on a commission or a larger piece where i know theres going to be a lot of colors or if its a piece where im not sure exactly what color scheme i want so laying out the colors together helps me kind of decide what kind of scheme i want. i am sooooo picky about my colors in my art i am genuinely obsessed with colors in art and there are times where i really have to stop myself from working on something forever just constantly adding more colors or putting little tiny changes and gradients in the colors.

after ive got the colors i want down i tend to try and block out parts of the piece with the base color for that section, and then i start to paint with the colors that i want to go on top of that base color from there.

once im satisfied with the colors/shading/rendering and everything ill go back and look over things and will fix things that look off or sometimes completely redo segments if they dont look right to me. when i was younger and mainly doing digital art using my phone and my fingers i would use a lot of filters and overlays on top of my art once i was done, and honestly im glad to not be doing that anymore because i dont think it made my art look any better. i do color adjustments and sometimes will put on a color overlay or a layer to emphasize the shadows and the light in the piece, but i try to keep those layers to a minimum and like i said before i have a tendency to obsess over the colors and ill spend a good amount of time in the color adjustment tool of clip studio and then ill just decide "actually it looks fine as it is" so yeah!

3. posting

i feel like i dont have a lot to say here gbfm i mean i honestly have a lot of thoughts about the relationship between artists and social media and how social media changes our views on art including our own art and how we can feel like we constantly need to be posting new art and just become content machines churning out new stuff. but ill save that rant for another time. i used to be really concerned about how many notes my art would get when i was younger, and i dont at all blame anyone who still is very concerned about that bc it sucks when u work hard on something youve created and then you dont get a lot of recognition for it, but honestly within the last two years or so i feel like ive begun to have a lot healthier relationship with posting my art. i really just post my art on my art blog, reblog it to my main blog, and then thats that yknow! i do really appreciate any and all support people give me, it means the world to me, but for me having the mentality where i dont need to post all the art i make and i dont need to be posting every day or every week or every month even has been a lot healthier for me because then im not constantly asking myself why didnt this get notes is my art awful??? and yeah i just kind of post it and my brain goes okay were done with that art we gotta make more

ive honestly been struggling a lot with art thru the pandemic and if youre reading this and have been struggling with creating in any way recently or even before the pandemic, please know theres no shame in having trouble creating and it doesnt make you bad at whatever it is u create!

thank you for reading this, feel free to consider urself tagged by me again if u want to do this!! love u all